Dear list, I've stumbled upon a serious issue that has not been discussed before. Somewhere around May 2015 kernel files was moved to /usr/lib/modules/<kernelver>, which are then copied to /boot in post scriptlets [1]. The issue is that such files are marked with %ghost because they don't exist initially and are being copied when installed. Now because of that rpm (rpm -qV) can't verify the files attributes correctly and heck even doesn't point out if they don't exist at all as it is the case if dnf fails in the middle of transaction. Because of that I've opened a bug report [2], but it was closed because that was supposedly intended, but looking at mailing list archive, I don't see this particular issue being raised and frankly in my opinion marking files that are responsible to boot the system as %ghost should not happen. %ghost should be used only when there is not any other option left in case when files truly doesn't exist and its integrity could not be verified in advance.
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2015-May/005819.html [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1467450 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
